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Opioid judge doesn't want media to know details of settlement talks

By Daniel Fisher | Friday, Feb 9, 2018 @ 12:31pm

CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - The judge overseeing multidistrict litigation against opioid manufacturers and distributors has named the teams of lawyers who will try to negotiate a settlement of hundreds of federal lawsuits - a complex task given parallel investigations and litigation by state attorneys general and potentially conflicting goals of private attorneys and their government counterparts.
Seats at the opioid litigation table are rearranged; Simmons partner loses spot on executive committee

By The Madison County Record | Tuesday, Jan 16, 2018 @ 7:55am

CLEVELAND – District Judge Dan Polster ordered plaintiff lawyers in national opioid litigation to rearrange seats at the table after a protest against the original executive committee rung out from West Virginia.